Television

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There is a web-cast television "channel": Baduk TV

Here are some television programs that reference the game of Go.

Chris Hayashida: The games played are the Atomic Bomb Game, the Ear-Reddening Game, and the Blood-Vomiting Game. The positions might have changed from the original set up after a few takes, though.


Here is the position of the game shown in Enterprise, episode 'Cogenitor'. The picture on my TV was not very good, but I am confident that the diagram below depicts the position correctly.

[Diagram]

Cogenitor (W) - Charles 'Trip' Tucker (B)

BTW, Black seems to have around nine white prisoners.

Black (the teacher) plays at 1, White (the pupil, playing its first game) answers at 2 and thus secures the win against the champion of the Enterprise, undefeated for two years. Oh my :-) How do they keep that ship afloat? - GoldenBear?, November 2004

uxs: Off course, given the amount of stones on the board and the amount of prisoners, it seems that the alien either got a humongous handicap, or was allowed to play twice in a row every other turn or so. Given that, it seems Trip didn't really have a chance anyway, and the Enterprise engines are still in capable hands.

IanDavis Yes ;-) This would have been deemed to be the most artistic way to play by the director. I remember a scene in James Bond where the Director got rid of 2 knights from the board because he felt they were cluttering it up. Rendered the whole position (which was copied from Grandmaster Game Bronstein Spassky maybe?) totally unsound. As long as it's Art though.

gtwade: I rummaged online and found two pics from that scene. Would it be copyright infringement to show them here? Otherwise I can just link to them.

IanDavis it could well be, so just provide a link for the authorities to find out about it

gtwade: Here it is. [ext] http://www.voyager.cz/enterprise/epizody/048cogenitorobr4.htm

ThaddeusOlczyk: From what I can see of the overhead shot. There are two bowls of White stones, and none of Black.

Axel? If the member of the enterprise is the only Go-player on the ship and learned the game by an article of the Computer library (maybe a copie of wikipedia). He is indeed the champion of the ship and then the match is not too bad :-)

gtwade: I never saw the show (don't have TV). Is that scene a tribute to the Edward Lasker quote? Or is it just to show how intelligent the visiting alien is?


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